Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 150 Great Idea! (First Update!)

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Eighteen sets of five-courtyard tombs? Thirty-six palanquins carried by ten thousand craftsmen?
And then there's that thing called a yin organ, the ghost servant of the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell]...

If I really had that kind of capital, why would I need to risk coming to Shujiabao this time?

Zheng Que's face immediately darkened. Apart from having four ghost servants, he didn't have any of the things the other party mentioned.

I've never even seen those "ten-thousand-craft sedan chairs" and "yin genitals" before!

I don't know if Shujiabao can be considered a yin house (a place with a yin hut, a yin house
If that's not the case, he's never even seen a burial site!
In comparison, the simplest of all their demands was actually one hundred and eight ghost servants at the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell]!

In a flash, Zheng Que was furious and immediately said, "No way!"

"None of my four ghost servants, including Kulan, can be given to you."

"As for the other things you mentioned, I don't have them at the moment."

"However, I do have an idea that can solve your predicament."

"Your dowry is indeed a bit meager, but who told you to meet such a good person like me?"

"How about this, you just marry me."

"I don't ask for much, just a burial site and a bridal sedan chair. As for the burial artifacts, just a token amount will do, a couple will suffice. But I can have more ghost servants from the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell]... You only need to provide this dowry when you marry me."

"This solves your problems of lacking maids and dowry, and also allows you to legitimately pass on the dowry skills to me. It's a win-win situation, a perfect match made in heaven."

"Moreover, you can rest assured that as the saying goes, a wife who has shared hardship should not be abandoned. As long as you marry me and assist me in my cultivation, lend me all your ghost servants, and let me ride in your sedan chair, once I become an immortal, not only will you not be able to have eighteen sets of yin houses, but you can have eighteen thousand sets of yin houses without any problem."

"When the time comes, whatever you want—the sedan chair, the spirit artifacts, the ghost servants—you can have as many as you desire, and I'll give you double!"

"I am a righteous cultivator, and I always keep my word and never go back on my word. I never lie to anyone, and Ku Lan can testify to this."

As soon as the words were spoken, the bridal chamber, adorned with flowers, fell into a deathly silence.

After a while, a small thing was thrown in from outside the tent.

Zheng Que caught it and looked down to see a pale yellow jade slip. He then looked outside the tent and saw that the wedding candles were burning brightly, illuminating the room in crimson. The curtains were covered in a surging blood color, and the ghost bride's figure had disappeared.

He was slightly taken aback, unsure whether the ghost bride had agreed to his suggestion or not.

After thinking for a moment, Zheng Que disregarded all that, took the jade slip, immediately pressed it to his forehead, and began to examine it.

The jade slip contained the cultivation technique called "Secret Record of Yin-Yang Harmony." According to the description, it allows one to absorb the yin essence of a woman to enhance one's own cultivation. The content of the technique is concise and clear; one only needs to follow the instructions to cultivate.

The only thing to note is that the technique only mentions that it can be used to divination women, but it doesn't say whether it works on female ghosts.

Furthermore, the women whose bodies are used for divination will be refined into furnaces by this technique...

After reading it, Zheng Que was immediately startled.

He was just purged by Kulan!
Could it be that his own physical body had also been refined into a furnace? In a flash, Zheng Que immediately began to check his condition. At this moment, he was full of energy and vitality, his spiritual power was lively and abundant, and he seemed to have inexhaustible strength. There was no sign of being listless, weak, or depleted. Even his soul was very stable.

Soon, Zheng confirmed that there was no trace of divination on his current state.

Zheng Que was taken aback. Had Ku Lan forgotten to use the Yin technique of replenishing Yin by absorbing Yang energy again?
This……

This is great!

Thinking of this, Zheng Que immediately felt relieved. Then he looked at his right hand, which originally only had the character "令" written on it. Now it was covered with dense light blue patterns. These patterns intertwined and wove into extremely complex runes. The runes were straight and square.

These are the runes that condensed into the gavel in the underworld just now!
However, after leaving the underworld, the gavel transformed back into runes and was branded onto his right hand.

"This gavel is formed from the combined green energy of the names of ten underworld officials."

"The Book of Life and Death will generate an imperial edict for every forty-nine names recorded."

"And by issuing an imperial edict and appointing ten underworld officials, one can obtain a talisman similar to a gavel?"

Thinking of this, Zheng Que circulated his spiritual power and tried to activate the rune branded on his right hand.

The next moment, he felt as if the spiritual power in his body was suddenly pulled out. In just a moment, the spiritual power in his dantian was almost completely used up!
The runes on his right hand only emitted a faint glow before the light disappeared completely, returning to calm.

Zheng Que hurriedly stopped trying. His forehead was covered in sweat, his chest heaved violently, and he was panting heavily. He felt extremely weak all over, and even the groom's clothes on his body felt unusually cold, as if a heavy boulder was pressing down on him.

It took him a moment to catch his breath.

Looking at the rune on his right hand, Zheng Que frowned slightly. This rune could be activated, but it required an enormous amount of spiritual power, which was impossible for him with his current cultivation level!
For now, this gavel can only be used in the underworld...

With this thought in mind, Zheng Que immediately lifted the curtain and stood up.

The room, decorated like a bridal chamber, was filled with overwhelming red, along with various depictions of mandarin ducks playing in the water, twin lotus blossoms, and endless generations of children. Half of the wedding candles on the table had burned down, and red candle wax slowly slid down the gilded candlesticks, forming a string of goiters along the way. A faint, cool fragrance wafted in the air, like the scent of winter plum blossoms.

Beside the bed was a footstool carved with magpies perched on plum branches, with some torn clothes scattered on it. Upon closer inspection, they were all Zheng Que's previous clothes, along with several storage bags and soul-nourishing bags, all haphazardly wrapped in strips of cloth.

Looking around and not finding anyone else, Zheng Que immediately bent down to pick up his usual storage bag and took out a set of ordinary robes.

Immediately afterwards, he took off his luxurious and elaborate wedding attire, which was filled with a heavy sense of gloom, and put on his own robe.

Ordinary robes don't have such a heavy yin energy, so they're not as uncomfortable to wear.

Zheng Que glanced at the several storage bags and soul-nourishing bags he had collected this time, but instead of immediately checking and counting them, he walked outside.

creak.

As soon as Zheng Que opened the door, he saw a slender figure standing almost against the door, dressed in black with a black umbrella, exuding a quiet elegance.

It is indeed a withered orchid!

(End of this chapter)